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Joachim Kunz (born 9 February 1959) is a German 
weightlifter
Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ...
who competed for East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...
. He was born in Stollberg
Stollberg is a town in Saxony, Germany, in the district Erzgebirgskreis. It is situated 20 km east of Zwickau and 17 km southwest of Chemnitz. It was the site of the Hoheneck women's prison
Hoheneck Women's Prison (German: ''Frauengef ...
.
At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
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he won a silver medal in the class. He won gold at the 1981
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and 1983 World Championships. At the 1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...
in Seoul
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he won a gold medal in the class.
As of 2008, Kunz is head of German instant soup
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manufacturer ''Suppina''.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kunz, Joachim 1959 births Living people People from Stollberg German male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of East Germany Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1988 Summer Olympics World record setters in weightlifting Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold People from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt Sportspeople from Saxony